Exporting Abortion, An Investigation Featuring Amphora Media, Wins Voices Award

Exporting Abortion, a cross-border investigation featuring Amphora Media, has won a Voices Award for the category ‘Press, Video & Documentary’. 

Exporting Abortion quantified abortion access in Europe for the first time – and how, despite the progress made in the attainment of this right, thousands of women across Europe are forced to cross the borders of their home countries to access an abortion.

Locally, the investigation, authored by Joanna Demarco, revealed how, among other findings, Spain has surpassed the UK in the number of women from Malta travelling there to have an abortion, and that there were over 2,000 self-managed abortions in Malta in the last five years, despite the country’s near blanket ban.

The report also further revealed how abortion pill shipments into Malta had also doubled in four years, in a climate where travelling for abortion is up to 25 times more expensive.

On 11th March, the same day the award was won, a woman was sentenced to an 18-month prison term, suspended for three years, after being found guilty of inducing her own abortion using medication in 2024.

The investigation was coordinated by Público (Spain) and was conducted by journalists from across the continent and published by 11 media outlets.